News Untold
Subtitle: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781943665976
Subjects: Journalism, objectivity; Poverty; Appalachian region
Description: The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region's poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related processes help shape understandings of economic need and local social responsibility. Focusing on pattterns of both media creation and consumption, it shows how a lack of constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for the poor to voice their concerns. -- Provided by publisher.